Shazam! Fury Of The Gods Director Hopes To Coexist With Avatar 2 At The Box Office

The first "Shazam!" earned around $140 million domestically in 2019, which is quite a far cry from the earnings we tend to see superhero movies get. But it was a much smaller superhero movie than we were used to, even though it came from one of DC's two greats. As sequels tend to do, everyone's hoping "Shazam! Fury of the Gods" outperforms its predecessor, which likely cost more than the first film's $100 million budget, and Warner Bros. is definitely positioning it with its premiere of the week. of Christmas. This is where they released "Aquaman" to the tune of $335 million domestically. This movie didn't have a juggernaut like "Avatar: The Way of Water" which took up so many screens just days before.

While there's always the possibility that Cameron's epic will take all the oxygen, David F. Sandberg thinks it won't. Speaking to /Film's Ryan Scott at this year's San Diego Comic-Con, Sandberg expressed his confidence in the box office prospects of "Shazam! Fury of the Gods":

"He should be very scared. That's the end of James Cameron. (laughs) No, I think it's really good, because they're such different movies. I mean, look at the first "Avatar" There were other movies that came out at the same time that did really well...especially around Christmas...everyone knows "Avatar" is going to be, like, the greatest movie of all time. I'm going to go see it But yeah, there's room for "Shazam!" too."

You can only admire the confidence, and for my part, I hope he's right. The first "Shazam!" was one of the few bright spots for me in our superhero saturated world, and I expect great things from "Fury of the Gods".